Posted on 10/08/2025 10:54:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A Dominican priest in Chicago who said he’d spent the day helping a young U.S. citizen who’d been beaten by ICE agents after he was “detained for walking on his own sidewalk on his way to his home” posted some video of tear gas. “America,” he wrote, “we are better than this.”
The irony is that a lot of us have spent our lives convinced that we really were better than this, and now Donald Trump seems hell-bent on proving us wrong. He has declared war on some U.S. cities, where our military is, according to him, supposed to train on those “enemy within” populations that didn’t vote for him. Stephen Miller claims a Trump-appointed judge who ruled that the administration can't send troops into Portland is part of a “legal insurrection” in the face of a coordinated “terrorist attack” on the federal government. This is why some of us do not necessarily believe that everything and everyone the government labels a terrorist really is one.
Yet those who approve of all that’s happening in this country do not mystify me, and partly that’s because they do not believe that this is what is happening. Frustratingly for some of my friends, I will never agree that this means all Trump supporters are x or are y. And last weekend, in my hometown of Mount Carmel, Illinois, population 7,015, I was reminded why.
I went home to be inducted into my small public high school’s hall of fame there, in red rural southern Illinois, right across the Wabash River from Indiana. Mount Carmel High School is the one everybody in Wabash County attends. When I was in school, we did not have AP classes or test prep, and I only knew one person who even applied to an Ivy League college,...
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Stuff it, lady.
It’s way too late for that.
L
“We” killed Charlue Kirk. We are not better than this. We are awful.
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